The dove in the belly / Jim Grimsley.
"The trailer Ronny grew up in was never a home; at least not in the sense of a haven. He shared it with his mother and a succession of husbands, learning to keep to himself, get good grades, work toward a scholarship (since no one was going to pay for college other than him). At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ronny's made some friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm life, and protected his heart. Until he can't. Ben is in some ways Ronny's opposite; he's big and solid where Ronny is small and slight. Ben's at UNC on a football scholarship. Confident, with that easy jock swagger, and an explosive temper always simmering. Straight. He's aware of the overwhelming effect he has on Ronny. It's like a sensation of power. So easy to tease Ronny, throw playful insults, but it all feels somehow...loaded. Meanwhile Ronny's mother has moved to Vegas with her latest husband. And Ben's mother is fighting advanced cancer. A bubble forms around the two, as surprising to Ronny as it is to Ben. Within it their connection ignites physically and emotionally. But what will happen when the tensile strength of a bubble is tested? When the rest of life intervenes? The Dove in the Belly is about the electric, dangerous, sometimes tender but always powerful attraction between two very different boys. But it's also about the full cycles of love and life and how they open in us the twinned capacities for joy and grief"--
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- ISBN: 9781646141319 (HRD)
- ISBN: 9781646141319
- ISBN: 1646141318 (HRD)
- Physical Description: 322 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Montclair : Levine Querido, 2022.
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Subject: | First loves. Mothers and sons. College students. Gay men. |
Genre: | Fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Albright Memorial Library | YOUNG ADULT GRIMSLE (Text) | 50686016182599 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Altoona Area Public Library | YA GRI (Text) | 33240004957620 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Wayne County Public Library | YA FIC GRI (Text) | 31843001290945 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
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